Convertible chair



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A. B. LAWRENCE & J. S. BATOHELDER.

- CONVERTIBLE CHAIR.

No. 365,344. Kw Patented June 21, 1887.

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. CONVERTIBLE GHAIR. No. 365,344. Patented June 21, 1887.

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ARTHUR B. LAWVRENOE AND JOHN S HAM, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIED PATENTOFFICE.

. BATOHELDER, OF SOUTH Asnnuan- TO HEZEKIAH MATTHEWS, or ASH- BURNHAMDEPOT, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONVERTIBLE CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,344, dated June 21,1887.

Application filed February 7, 1887. Serial No. 226,737. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ARTHUR B. LAWRENCE and JOHN S. BATOHELDER, citizensof the United States, residing at South Ashburnham in the county ofWorcester and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in a Combined Chair, Table, Music-Stand, andEasel-Holder; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figuresof reference i 5 marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The special object of the invention is to produce an article offurniture which shall subserve the several purposes ofa chair, table,

music-holder, and easel-support.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings,and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1. of the drawings is a perspective 2 view of the article whenused as a'chair; Fig, 2, a similar view of it when used as a table;

Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical section to show its use as a music oreasel support; Fig. 4, a perspective detail view of the extensionleafjoint, and Fig. 5 a similar view of the slotted castings. Fig. 6 is aperspective view of one of the fixed eye-plates.

I11 the drawings, A represents the leg-frame of a chair, B theseat-frame, and O the back, the two latter being made separate andindependent of each other. WVe make the seatt'rame sides I) 1) so as toform curved e'xtensions b b fiat on top,and which are provided with thefixed outer lateral headed pivots, 4O u I). i

D D are castings attached to the front of the back O,parallel to eachother, and. provided with slots (1 d, the latter enabling them to slideon the said pivots b. By this means the 5 back 0 may first be turned ina horizontal plane and then slid forward until its center of gravitywill be as nearly as possible coincident with that of the seat andlegframes A B.

E E are two metallic side arms pivoted to and near the top of the edgesof the back 0, and having at the front ends the inside grooves,

e e, in which is held the connecting-bar e by the end screws,e On theunder side of the bar 6 we locate the pins 6 e, which enter holes b I)in the seat'frame, so as to firmly support the back'G as a table-top. Toone side of the back or table top .O,we joint the leaf 0 by means of theheaded leaf-bolts c c and the fixed eyeplates 0 c on said back, the eyesbeing made of the key-hole form, so that the bolts may be 6 entered andslidforwardl In order to brace theleaf O, we pivot the bifurcated pieceF to the under side of the leaf, and between these bifurcations pivotone end of the brace-arm G, which is made angular at 6 its free end,soas to fit 'on'the angle of the seatframe sides bb, asshownin Fig. 2 ofthe drawings. On the back and about the middle of the seat-bottom whichis curved up at the rear,

We place the screw-eye G, and to this pivot the 0 hook H. while on thefront of the lower part of the back we place another eye-screw, G, inwhich the hook latches, so that the back may be held at a forwardincline While the pivoted table-support is thrown over on the rear ofthe back 0 to hold music or an easel, which rests on the bar 6 when thepivoted back is in the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

We are aware that a combined sofa and table is described in the expiredPatent N o. 5,390; also,that a combined table, skirt-board, and sofa aredescribed in the patent No. 54,140; hence we desire to disclaimeverything shown and described in these patents.

Having thus described all that is necessary 8 5 to a full understandingof our invention, what we claim as new,anddesire to protect by LettersPatent, is-- 1. A combined chair and table formed with the leg-frameA,seat-frame B,and pivoted slid- 9o ing back 0, said back and seat-framebeing connected to allow the back to turn and slide pivoted back, and aseat-fra1ne having the frame sides I) b, substantially as shown and(leholes b' bflwherebythe table may be supported scribed. in front, asspecified. In testimony whereof we affix our signatures 3. Thecombination, with the table or back in presence of two Witnesses. 5 O,of the leaf 0, held thereto by a bolt-and- ARTHUR B. LAWRENCE. key-holeoint and supported by an oblique 7 n v 4 brace, said brace consisting ofthe pivoted JOHN BAICHLLDDR' piece Rand the blflCCflllll G, pivotedbetween Vitncsses: the bifurcations of the piece F, and angled atEPHRAIM S'roRs,

10 the end,so as to fit across the angle of theseat- A. A. ROCKWOOD.

